Shirdi Sai Baba Shrine

In an earlier posting I talked about my adventure searching for a statue of Shirdi Sai Baba, that I had heard was sitting in a crate off the girivalam road near Adi Annamalai. My search was met with success and I had a nice darshan of Shirdi Sai Baba, albeit from outside the crate in which he had been delivered and was awaiting installation.

Happy to report that today Maha Kumbabhisekham was performed at the Shirdi Sai Baba Shrine, which will be known as, ‘Akshaya Shirdi Sai Baba Mandir’. For those who wish to visit the Shrine, it is located at Kubera Mannupillai Garden, Kosalai Gramam, Girivalam Road, Adi Annamalai.

I hope to soon visit the Shrine myself and thereafter post photographs on Arunachala Grace.

For more information of the extraordinary saint, Sri Shirdi Sai Baba, please visit the official website at this link here.

Pearls of the Guru

"A real guru is like an ice cube. He cools your consciousness and then disappears without a trace." [Chitrabhanu-ji]

"Everyone has his own path, his mission, and even if you take your Master as a model, you must always develop in a way that suits your own nature."
[Aïvanhov]

"My Guru became my all-in-all, my home, mother and father, everything. All my senses left their places, and concentrated themselves in my eyes, and my sight was centred on him. Thus my guru was the sole object of my meditation and I was conscious of none else. While meditating on him my mind and intellect were silent and I had thus, to keep quiet and bow to him in silence."
[Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi]

"Everything in the world was my Guru. Don't you know that Dattatreya, when he was asked by the king which Guru had taught him the secret of bliss, replied that the earth, water, fire, animals, men, etc., all were his Gurus and went on explaining how some of these taught him to cling to what was good and others taught him what things he should avoid as bad."
[Ramana Maharshi]

"This beggar prays to his Father to bless you all who have come here. My Lord Rama blesses you, My Father blesses you. Arunachaleswara blesses you. It doesn't matter to me what name it is. All the blessings of my Father for all of you! Well, that is the end. That is all."
[Yogi Ramsuratkumar]